[Skiboot] [PATCH 00/12] opal: Improve TOD topology failover.

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Apr 22 14:06:49 AEST 2015


Mahesh J Salgaonkar <mahesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Once FSP fixes/re-configures the new backup master topology it sends out
> mailbox command (xE6, s/c 0x06, mod 0) to enable new backup topology.
> (NOTE: We need to decide how do we handle this on non-FSP based
> system)

This would be a PRD related thing. JK?

> Initial set of patches (1 through 5) sets up the framework to capture the
> necessary topology info to keep OPAL up-to-date with current topology
> configurations.

Is there any reason we need to keep our own copy rather than just
interrogate TOD_STATUS etc when we need to look things up?



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